{"product_id":"lacan-and-chan-buddhist-thought-9781032056975","title":"Lacan and Chan Buddhist Thought","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLacan and Chan Buddhist Thought\u003c\/em\u003e provides a close reading of how Lacan mobilizes concepts from Chan Buddhist philosophy, culture, and practice in his later teachings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book emerged from the three co-authorsâ engagement with Lacanâs 1962â1963 Seminar on Anxiety, and the significance of Lacanâs original interpretation of the Buddhist principle that desire is the cause of suffering. The book reads key Lacanian concepts â such as the \u003ci\u003eobjet a\u003c\/i\u003e, jouissance, the real, Nirvana, and the mirror â through ancient Buddhist teachings and koans. With this focused exploration of psychoanalysis and Chan Buddhism, the authors offer a philosophically grounded cross-cultural approach to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis in Asian countries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLacan and Chan Buddhist Thought will be a rich resource for psychoanalysts, academics, and students interested in Lacan and religion, the intellectual and cultural relationship between Asian and Western thought, and Mahayana Bu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is one of the clearest and most interesting introductions to Lacan. Since Chinese people are familiar with Buddhist thought, interpreting Lacan from this perspective makes the reader feel especially at home and helps to understand some of Lacan's extremely difficult concepts. This book is very suitable for Chinese readers to study Lacan and the writers present Lacan with such depth and lightness that the reader will find it a pleasure to read. The interpretation of the name \u003ci\u003eLackhan\u003c\/i\u003e is very helpful in understanding the two otherness inside and outside the subject, as well the explication of the concepts of jouissance, pleasure, and the Real are very illuminative and greatly clarify their complexities. In the works published in China on Lacan, there are only a few references to the relationship between Lacan's thought and Buddhism which are not so systematic. Therefore, this book, and eventually a Chinese translation, will have a great academic impact that will not only help to popularize Lacanian theory in China, but also orients a new trend in studying Lacan.\" - \u003cb\u003eXiaoyi Zhou, Peking university. Dr. Zhou earned his doctorate at Lancaster University in 1993, and has published widely on comparative literature and literary theory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What a treat to read this profound, careful, and creative exploration of Lacan and Chan Buddhism. East-West illuminate and add to each other, amplifying Lacan's vocabulary and concepts and Chan's existential evocations. It was not a surprise to see YHVH in the glossary touching a dimension beyond name and thought in the usual sense. And although Bion was not part of this work, his emphasis on the creative unknown vibrates with it. Unconscious to unconscious, psyche to psyche, mind to mind—so much permeates and enriches. This book opens many doors and passageways and gives us much to think about, experience and digest.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Eigen, PhD., \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (adjunct) and the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is one of the clearest and most interesting introductions to Lacan. Since Chinese people are familiar with Buddhist thought, interpreting Lacan from this perspective makes the reader feel especially at home and helps to understand some of Lacan's extremely difficult concepts. This book is very suitable for Chinese readers to study Lacan and the writers present Lacan with such depth and lightness that the reader will find it a pleasure to read. The interpretation of the name \u003ci\u003eLackhan\u003c\/i\u003e is very helpful in understanding the two otherness inside and outside the subject, as well the explication of the concepts of jouissance, pleasure, and the Real are very illuminative and greatly clarify their complexities. In the works published in China on Lacan, there are only a few references to the relationship between Lacan's thought and Buddhism which are not so systematic. Therefore, this book, and eventually a Chinese translation, will have a great academic impact that will not only help to popularize Lacanian theory in China, but also orients a new trend in studying Lacan.\" - \u003cb\u003eXiaoyi Zhou, Peking university. Dr. Zhou earned his doctorate at Lancaster University in 1993, and has published widely on comparative literature and literary theory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What a treat to read this profound, careful, and creative exploration of Lacan and Chan Buddhism. East-West illuminate and add to each other, amplifying Lacan's vocabulary and concepts and Chan's existential evocations. It was not a surprise to see YHVH in the glossary touching a dimension beyond name and thought in the usual sense. And although Bion was not part of this work, his emphasis on the creative unknown vibrates with it. Unconscious to unconscious, psyche to psyche, mind to mind—so much permeates and enriches. This book opens many doors and passageways and gives us much to think about, experience and digest.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Eigen, PhD., \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (adjunct) and the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction 1. \u003c\/em\u003eLacan and Vasubhandu ( 世亲菩萨) 2. The Second Turning of the Dharma Wheel: Nagarjuna’s Teachings on Nirvan 3. Rereading Freud’s Nirvana 4. The Pleasure, Constancy, and Nirvana Principles 5. Wu and Mu in the \u003ci\u003eCáodòng Zōng and Línjì\u003c\/i\u003e Schools 6. \"No Buddha-Nature\" and Buddha’s Desire 7. The Vacuum in Western Science 8. Lacan and Wu 9. The Paradoxical Chan Koans, Self-Reference, and Letter Jouissance 10. The True Body of Bodhi and Buddh(\u003ci\u003ea\u003c\/i\u003e) 11. The Mirror in Lacan, Chan, and Dogen’s Zen 12. The One, the Many, and \u003ci\u003eKuan-yin 13. \u003c\/i\u003eClinical Dream Example, \u003ci\u003eAppendix: The Practice of Thinking non-thinking or Thinking\/Meditating with the Body of (the Third) Jouissance\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018816192855,"sku":"9781032056975","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032056975.jpg?v=1750778256","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lacan-and-chan-buddhist-thought-9781032056975","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}